HUNTING AND FISHING IN THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC 



CLOSE SEASONS, 



HUNTING 



1. Moose and caribou,— from 1st February to 1st September. 

 3. Deer, — from 1st January to 1st October. 



N. B. — The hunting of moose, caribou, or deer with dogs or by means of 

 snares, traps, &c, is prohibited. 



No one {whiteman or Indian) has a right, during one season's hunting, to 

 kill or take alive — unless he has previously obtained a permit from the Com- 

 missioner of Crown Lands for that purpose— more than 2 m.oose, 2 caribou 

 and. 3 deer. 



After the first ten days of the close season, all railways and steamboat 

 companies and public carriers are forbidden to carry the whole or any part 

 {except the skin) of any moose, caribou or deer, without being authorized 

 thereto by the Commissioner of Crown Lands. 



3. Beaver, mink, otter, martin, pekan — From 1st April to 1st November. 

 4,. Hare,— from 1st February to 1st November. 



5. Musk-rat (only in the counties of Masknionge, Yamaska, Richelieu and 



Berthier), — from 1st May to 1st April following. 



6. Woodcock, snipe, patridge of any kind,— from 1st February to 1st Sept. 



7. Black duck, teal, wild duck of any kind, (except sheldrake and gull,) — 



from 1st May to 1st September. 



N. B. — And at any time of the year, from the above mentioned birds, 

 between one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise. Ft is also forbidden 

 to keep exposed, during such prohibited hours, lures, or decoys, &c. 



Nevertheless in that part of the Province to the East and North of the 

 counties of Bellechasse and Montmorency, the inhabitants may, at all seasons 

 of the year, but only for the purpose of procuring food, shoot any of the birds 

 mentioned in No. 7. 



8. Birds known as perchers, such as swallows, king birds, warblers, flycat- 



chers, woodpeckers, whippoorwills, finches, (song-sparrows, red- birds, 

 indigo birds, &c.,) cow-buntings, titmice, goldfinches, grives, (robin), 

 woodthruches, &c.,) kinglets, bobolinks, grakles, grosbeaks, humming 

 birds, cuckoes, owls, &c, except eagles, falcons, hawks and other birds 

 of the falconidae, wild pigeons, king-fishers, crows, ravens, waxwings 

 {re collets), shrikes, jays, magpies, sparrows and starling,— from 1st 

 March to 1st September. 

 O. It is forbidden to take nests or eggs of wild birds,— at any time of the 

 year. 



N. B. — Fine of S2 to S100, or imprisonment in default of payment. 



No person who is not domiciled in the Province of Quebec, nor in that of 

 Ontario can, at any time, hunt in this Province _ without havino previously 

 obtained a license to that effect from the Commissioner of Crown Lands. Such 

 permit is nut transferable. 



